Has the SOA ever considered crowdsourcing their experience studies?
Instead of the SOA creating the next mortality table update - they could make it a contest on kaggle. Would be neat to see what non-actuaries come up with.

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Am aware of this.
Was asking if the SOA has considered crowdsourcing as opposed to using SOA volunteers/consultants for creating their tables?

I don't have any special insight into the decision-making process, but I suspect that even if they considered it, they promptly rejected it.
1. Some of the SOA decision makers are "fuddy=duddies." Many years ago when I was studying credibility and some other CAS ideas, I wanted to mortality study people to consider applying some of their techniques - particularly where data were sparse, such as high attained ages and high duration data on smoker/nonsmoker/preferred categories. Maybe I didn't do a good job of making a case for it, but in any case :crickets:
2. Life insurance decision makers are also in the same category. They don't want shiny new stuff - just don't trust it like the tried-and-true.
3. In collecting and administering intercompany data, the SOA promises total anonymity to participating companies. As I recall, even the people at MIB who do the work on running the mortality studies are kept in the dark about what companies contributed what data. I suspect that there would be a big issue with the SOA letting such data (even anonymized) be out there on the web for anybody (competitors, for instance) to see.

JMO, of course.

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